I anxiously await the release of the latest season of MeatEater. At the end of Part 1 I’m always upset that they haven’t released the entire season all at once, but then I’d be waiting an entire year for more content, and I don’t really want to do that. That said, Season 10 didn’t disappoint. It wasn’t as cool as a person getting charged by a moose, but it was still just good, tasteful, enjoyable, hunting content.
If you’re not familiar with MeatEater, its probably the most popular hunting show that’s ever been made. Steven Rinella and Meat Eater are extremely tactful, tasteful, and ethical hunters who connect to the land, and eat what they hunt.
MeatEater Season 10 Episode 1 Review: Wyoming Pronghorn with Luke Combs
I was extremely jealous that Steve and the MeatEater Crew have such good connections. I’d love to go hunting with Luke Combs. I think its really cool when celebrities are also hunters, but also when they do things right and don’t give hunters a bad name.
Antelope are on the move. The hunters are out wandering around, but so are the antelope. They also said that antelope are the only land antelope that shed their horns. They also said that the antelope is the fastest land animal in North America. Now deer, elk, and moose have antlers, not horns.
Luke combs also wasn’t super familiar with his rifle. He tried for quite a while to put his gun on safety after he had shot, but hadn’t cleared the spent cartridge from his rifle yet, so it didn’t work. There was a subtle cut in the footage, but I bet one of the crew members told him that he needed to eject the cartridge before he put it on safety. It could have just been buck fever, but there was a struggle there.
MeatEater Season 10 Episode 2 Review: High Country Mountain Goat
Mountain goat hunting looks like an absolute blast. These guys are out, tromping through the snow, climbing rugged mountains, and looking for the elusive mountain goat. They’re out looking specifically for a billy, a male goat. Hunting males means that females are left to reproduce, helping to ensure that there are more goats left and it doesn’t really put a dent in the population, at least not as much as taking a female, or a nanny would.
One thing I noticed was the attention they made for their camp, and pausing their hunting to set up their tents and things in the middle of the hunt.
They will soak up lead pound for pound like not many animals out there. Steve also related a story of in the past, he shot a mountain goat and mortally hit it, but it didn’t drop in its tracks. It ended up walking off a cliff and just demolished it.
Steve missed a goat, and then cleared his schedule so he could get back up on the mountain. I’ve done my fair share of missing and trying to spend as much time hunting myself, so this really spoke to me.
MeatEater Season 10 Episode 3 Review: Lone Start Whitetails
They are hunting in fantastic deer hunting areas. Because of that, they decide to try to using a bow. If you’ve ever wondered what rattling with antlers should sound like, They move from spot to spot and do a lot of rattling. It really shows off how its supposed to be done, even if Steve breaks one of his buddy’s rattling antlers.
They take the deer to the wild game chef Jesse Griffeths. He’s a fantastic chef and breaks down a deer like an artist. He zips through that entire deer like Gordon Ramsay on an episode of Master Chef. He makes an amazing dish out of deer flank, bacon, onions, and jalapenos. He also does deer heart jalapeno poppers, and a back strap tar-tar type dish. He also threw in some Javelina that he had shot on his own, just to add to the wild game feast. From this episode, I actually went and looked up his wild game cook book, and added it to my book shelf. It was amazing watching him cook. I want my wild game to be that sophisticated, and to look that good.
MeatEater Season 10 Episode 4 Review: Flash in the Pan
In this episode, Steve goes hunting the flintlock season in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is the only state that has a flintlock season, paying homage to the old history of Pennsylvania riflemen. The crew goes through the working of a flintlock rifle. It was really cool to see that old technology. For those curious, flintlocks evolved into the muzzle loader, which ignites with a cap, not a flint. This then developed into more modern type weapons.
Steve has a good look at a good at a deer, but the flintlock has a hair trigger, and he accidently shoots his flintlock off before he means to, and misses. They go through several challenges that come with using the old technology, from getting their powder in the pan wet, to not seeing what happens through the black powder smoke, to just plain missing. Spoiler, Steve doesn’t get anything, but they did have some really cool flintlock shooting footage.
One of the things that surprised me in this episode was all the elk they were seeing. I knew there were traditionally elk in Pennsylvania, but I didn’t know there were any still there.
MeatEater Season 10 Episode 5 Review: Hillbilly Heaven
Steve goes out with a few guys to hunt squirrels and racoons on mules, which seems to be the appropriate way to go about it, hunting in Arkansas. It’s also right after the polar vortex of 2021 that swept through that region, so there’s a lot of snow on the ground, and its bitter cold. The squirrels really don’t want to be out when its so cold though, and it takes them some time to really get into the squirrels.
There is some debate about using a 22 to hunt squirrels, vs using a shotgun to hunt squirrels. The consensus eventually was that the shotgun is obviously just more efficient, but people would rather eat squirrels that have been headshot with a 22.
The racoon hunting is also slow due to the cold, but they finally get one, then skin it, and also take some of the meat. They slow cook the racoon, and they say it tastes about like pork.
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